Tag: nature

This is the seed of Erodium cicutarium (stork’s bill or filaree), which upon having contact with water will bore or drill itself into the ground in order for the seed to sprout. Watch closely as the seed will reverse itself several times, possibly to bury itself further in to the ground. Erodium cicutarium is…

4 months and 9,624 photos later, Thomas Blanchard has released his first flower timelapse, shot in 5K RAW. Blanchard explains: “I created this video simply because I love nature. I always found the flower’s timelapses fabulous, but most of the time they are made with a black background. Then I told myself to make…

After 4 months, 14,000 miles and 20,000 still images, photographer Shane Black returns with Adventure is Calling II, a beautiful timelapse tour of US and Canadian landscapes (see Part I here). Shane captured the scenes last summer as he travelled across the United States and Canada teaching workshops, shooting whenever he could along the…

When a big, new shell washes ashore, hermit crabs congregate and position themselves from largest to smallest in a vacancy chain where everyone tries to upgrade to a bigger home. An excerpt from BBC’s Life Story Series (episode ‘Home’) and narrated by David Attenborough.

The aerial cinema experts at Teton Gravity Research release the first ultra HD footage of the Himalayas shot from above 20,000 ft. with the GSS C520 system, the most advanced gyro-stabilized camera system in the world. Filmed from a helicopter with a crew flying from Kathmandu at 4,600 ft. up to 24,000 ft. on…

Photographer Shane Black and two friends spent two months travelling across the United States teaching photography workshops and exploring the great outdoors in an old Dodge Caravan. The trio travelled across 32 states, visited 13 national and state parks and drove nearly 13,000 miles, capturing jaw-dropping footage along the way. The music is ‘Signaling…

In this amazing footage, Kawika Singson uses his GoPro (hopefully on a very long pole) to get up close and personal with lava spilling into the ocean water. The video was captured off the coast of Hawaii.